Jane Eyre As A Bildungsroman

leaving her into the care of her Aunt, Mrs Reed. Mrs Reed is a widow

Charlotte Bronte, in her most famous novel, Jane Eyre, carefully utilizes different characters to influence and shape Jane’s personality throughout the story. Bronte uses varied actions and emotions to do this, but one of the main actions is abuse. Though not in every setting in the novel, abusive tormenting people are spread throughout the story that change Jane and her future. These ill-mannered actions can completely change Jane’s mindset, personality, and life-story. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, cruel male protagonists alter Jane’s character through physical, psychological, and emotional abuse.

Reed. Then when Mrs. Reed sent Jane off to school she traveled to Lowood Institute. She was there from 10 years old to 18 years old eventually she got tired of staying in the Lowood Institute. After Jane left the Lowood Institute she was hired by Mr. Rochester in Thornfield and she was the governess for Adele a young French girl. When Jane left Thornfield she went to Moor House and stayed with the River sibling which turned out to be her cousins.

The novel is structured in two parts where the beginning is in the form of a flashback of Jane Eyre as a ten year old and then continues through Jane’s life rapidly to where she is now 31 years old. As a child, Jane was mistreated and verbally abused by her non-blood related aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her wicked children. One of the two maids of the house, Bessie, sympathizes for Jane and cares for her personally. Jane is sent to solitude in the “red-room” when she is “bad” and is forced to sit alone in the room her kind uncle passed away in. When her horrid cousin, who is much bigger than her, throws her book at her head, Jane retaliates and is able to hurt him to the point

Brontë consciously incorporates elements of fairy tales and Gothic fiction in her novel. In Jane Eyre, a young woman meets mysterious man and lives in his haunted mansion. His prison-like home is the manifestation of a dark secret surrounding its owner and his first wife, who represents the dark side of the young heroine. Jane Eyre reminds readers of fairy tales like “Cinderella” and “Beauty and the Beast.” For instance, Jane grew up with the archetypal evil stepmother, Mrs. Reed, and is mistreated as a child. Nevertheless, she possesses a kind heart; Jane accepts Mr. Rochester for who he is and encourages his development into a redeemed prince. Brontë can be credited with inventing many of the archetypes of the popular romantic mythos, even

Activity worksheets LEVEL 5 PENGUIN READERS Teacher Support Programme Jane Eyre While reading Chapters 1–5 1 What happened first? Put the sentences in order and number them, 1–10. a c Jane faints and wakes up in her bed. b c John Reed throws a book at Jane. c c Mrs Reed tells Mr Brocklehurst that Jane is a bad child.

Although authors’ life histories are not the main line in literary works, the epitomes of authors’ experience are always found in story lines of novels. Through subjectively designing characters of figures and plot development, authors show their personalities, values and views of life in their works, and consequently form the souls of characters and heighten the gist of the works. Virtually, the viewpoints of literary works are formed during this process. Jane Eyre, a typical novel with obvious autobiographic feature, is the master work of Charlotte Bronte, a famous English authoress in the 19th century. Being an authoress with strong feminist consciousness, the feminist characters and thoughts of Charlotte have significant influences on her

When Jane Eyre (1847) was published by Charlotte Brontë under the masculine pseudonym Currer Bell, it was received with great acclaim by some critics, and harsh criticism by others. The conservative Lady Eastlake suggested that if the book was by a woman ‘she had long forfeited the society of her own sex’. In addition to this lack of femininity, she also diagnosed a spirit of rebellion which she likened to the working class uprisings of the Chartists, with their demands for votes for the working people, and also the political revolutions which were then sweeping across Europe.[1] Jane Eyre unsettled views as to how women should act and behave, suggesting, in Lady Eastlake’s eyes, almost an overthrowing of social order. Unlike the long-suffering

When Jane is young she wants nothing more than to belong, but her own self keeps her from being accepted. While Jane is at Gateshead her family, the Reeds, ostracized her because of because she does not conform to what Mrs. Reed wants. Jane says to Mrs. Reed, “I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to visit you when I am grown up; and if anyone asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick” (Bronte 28). This causes Mrs. Reed to reject Jane forever and always despise her. Jane is different from the Reeds because she is an orphan and without them she would be poor, so that is why they do not accept her. Likewise, when Jane

Charles Dickens (the author of Great Expectations) and Charlotte Brontë (the author of Jane Eyre) both grew up during the early 1800s. Growing up during the same time period, each author incorporated elements of the Victorian Society into these novels. Both novels depict the protagonist’s search for the meaning of life and the nature of the world within the context of a defined social order. In essence, the two novels encompass the all-around self-development of the main characters, by employing similar techniques. Each spurs the protagonist on their journey by introducing some form of loss or discontent which then results in the main character departing

Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre. The novel is a highly fascinating piece of gothic literature based during the nineteenth century. The story unfolds around a young Jane Eyre who grows both in character and body. She experiences love and mystery. She, through many trials, finds a true, wholesome, and godly relationship with the main male protagonist, Mr. Rochester.

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a novel that has a deep secret rooted within its very foundation. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea often seen as a prequel to Jane Eyre (as it is set a time that precedes the events of the novels) sets out to unearth the secrets that are hidden within Jane Eyre; it fills in the chasm that exists in Jane Eyre by providing the history of Edward Rochester’s Creole wife Bertha Mason nee Antoinette Cosway. In a 1979 interview with Elizabeth Vreeland Rhys explained her reason for writing Wide Sargasso Sea:

Jane Eyre is a classic in English literature establishing a success figure, a woman who is living independence, seeking personal freedom, advocating equality of life and not lowering head to fate. The book analyzes Jane Eyre from different times in Gates head, Lowood, Thornfield, to discusses the process of character formation. From the initial resistance in Gates head to Lowood, then met Mr. Rochester in Thornfield, after that running away to a rural primary school and finally achieve happiness. A common girl with finally came up with the dream of pursuing a new and equal life because she was dissatisfied with the reality of injustice. And life exercises her to grow from naïve to mature, and finally realized her dream.

Jane Eyre: narrator; protagonist; relatable; lower in social class; looked down upon; follows story of her attempts at trying to find her place in the world; rebellious; eye for an eye disposition; strives for equality/justice; independent; searches for a set of morals/religion that she can follow; believes deeply in love and connecting with other people yet is strikingly independent - resists “love” (marriage) until she is confident in her own independence; she is constantly searching for a way to fit in and be loved

Question 1. Charlotte Bronte’s description of Jane Austen’s novel evokes a certain sense that Bronte wanted more from Austen’s literature. When comparing Bronte and Austen’s texts, both question what it means to live as a woman in the world of nineteenth-century Britain, but while In Pride and Prejudice as well as in Emma there is a sense of us as the reader being outside of what’s happening in the novel, whereas in Jane Eyre we are able to understand Jane a little bit better than the other characters. In Jane Eyre we never have access to anyone else’s interiority, and since the narrative is placed inside of Jane’s head, we are motivated to believe her perspective. Jane is represented to us as a character to with whom we are meant to be sympathetic towards and like, whereas with a character such as Emma, even Jane Austen knew that many people might not like the character of Emma that she had created, due to the fact that Emma was relatively spoiled and somewhat of a brat. I believe that Charlotte Bronte’s critique of Austen is that her writing only scrapes the surface of human emotion and does not lend itself to allowing a more in depth analysis of each of her characters true thoughts and feelings, which Bronte, in my opinion, is very fond of. Bronte’s writing seems to focus highly on the internal thoughts and feelings of her protagonist and less so on giving a variety of different perspectives of a variety of different characters. I believe that what Charlotte